Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1887-11-24
TAHLEQUAH LETTER.
A Visitor Views.-Fxtreme Quiet
Prevails. Tho Council.

TAuLEQUAH, NOV. Il, 1881.
EDITOR CHIEFTAIN:-I thought
perhaps a few stray jottings from
an outsider would net be unaccept-
able to your many readers, who
are watching, with more or less of
anxiety, the news from this place,
now the center Of the nation. OF
course your regular correspondent
keeps you fully posted on all po-
litical ways, doings and turnings,
but we do not all see the same
things in exactly the same light,
and maybe one will see some
things another does not. Two
weeks of the regular session have
passed and nothing done yeti /
hear it asked: GLOW long are you
going to keep this thing up?" 1--WE
intend to fight it out on this line
if it takes all summerp
That, as yet seems to be the grit
manifested by both sides. "But
if the thirty days expire and you
don't organize, how will you get
your pay?" "Oh well fix it up
before that time" All god cit
liens Of every degree or name or
party express the hope that it all
will be settled peaceably. The fact
that no violence has as yet been
attempted, but that the first days
excitement passed over quietly,
is looked upon by many as an
omen of good. People-the hot
ones-all cooled off, and all breath
freer. Those holding opposite
sides can be seen peaceably and
jovially exchanging jokes and even
cautiously, calmly and with good
nature probing and prodding one
another This is all much better
than bloodshed. The town is re-
remarkably quiet and still both
day and night. "In the memory of
/ The Oldest inhabitant" Tahlequah
never saw so quiet a council time.
Since the sixth of the month there
has not been seen here a drunken
man. That never could be said Of
Tahlaquah before. One week ago
four gallons of whiskey on its way
here, got no nearer than eight or
ten miles up on Barren Fork. The
whiskey peddler who had it in
charge net with a quartette ofkin-
dred spirits, and they got on big
high old loneeome among them
selves, and had a grand time Sun
day night. Monday morning when
they came to themselves the whis-
key was ali gone; one white man
by the name of Gill Runnels had
two or three knife wounds, not
serious, and one Cherokee named
Joe Shade was in real bad fix,
being cut seven times with a knife
and otherwise badly injured.
Everybody is glad the lot-gut did
not reach Tahlequah. The man
bringing il was Crabgrass GIFTS, an
old offender and a very slippery
one too, for he has been arrested
several times and the deputies
started with him for Fort Smith,
, but every time he gets away fr1m
, them. lie could very well be
spared from the community for a
p term ofyears, while possibly he
= might learn a better trade, as some
{ have who have Travelled that road
6 An old lady who will Be remem-
4 bered by many who read iiis, died
on the night Of the 9TH inst, fifteen
miles north Of Tahlaquah. She
T. was seventy years Of age, wife OF
+ Switzer Lowrey. She claimed
and it is said her claim WAS well
/, founded be q daughter Of the
' celebrated Parson Brownlow, OF
u Tennessee. conversed with an
}, old lady liyingi ia Tahlequol now,
y widow of Woodward, a bal
!, brother Of Mrs. Lowrey. She az
firms her belief in the rumor. but
says she was not personally ac,
Al quainled with Mrs. l.. when girl
Il only that "her name was Brown.
J. low" She was a great sufferer fol
h many years, having been helpless
from rheumatism for l6 years, anC
', for ten Of them perfectly blind
il The aged widow is now one of ou
,e oldest living citizens, being eighty
T. nino years old. lie is getting quit
I. feeble and in all probability vii
? not long survive his lost compan
y ion. =
le Business dragged so slowly iha
* quite number of the "nembeTs
IN went home last week. They az
coming in now and the town
Z, filling up again, and good man
a.. are rather anxi ously awaiting Nor
a. day, expecting that "somelhin
10 will happen"
n Let US all hope and let al Chri
tains pray earnestly that nothir
- bad will happen. but that law, o
ds der and right may win every tim
IA. Yours for The right MORE ANo